Yuanqi is a new digital infrastructure built by China Electronics for financial and key industries relying on its own computing industry chain and adopting a new generation architecture. Genesis has received widespread attention and heated discussions since its launch. This article shares our accumulation and exploration of new digital infrastructure with the industry by answering three questions: why is Genesis, what is Genesis, and how will Genesis develop in the future? , in order to win your support and build a new digital cornerstone with us.
01 Because of He Yuanqi
Opportunities and challenges in the era of digital infrastructure
Digital infrastructure is ushering in opportunities.
The first is the national industrial policy guidelines to promote the creation of new digital infrastructure. In 2018, my country proposed the concept of "new infrastructure" for the first time. On April 20, 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission clarified the scope of "new infrastructure" including information infrastructure, integrated infrastructure and innovative infrastructure.
Secondly, on the industry side, the four major industry trends have given rise to new digital infrastructure to a new level. The first trend is architecture reconstruction, and cloud-native architecture has become a consensus path; the second trend is open source innovation, with the power of open source, a number of innovative products have begun to emerge; the third trend is platform engineering, through integration and centralized to replace the original dozens or hundreds of silo-like application layout models; the fourth trend is industry cloud, which provides targeted and packaged business and "Capability" + industry-customized models to accelerate innovation.
The construction of new digital infrastructure is facing new historical opportunities, but it also faces more challenges. When building a new type of digital infrastructure, we must focus on solving three problems : First, how does the digital infrastructure support the iteration and upgrade of the technical architecture to ensure the continuous supply of comprehensive computing power and form stable and advanced commercial computing. In particular, how to meet the ultra-high requirements of the financial industry for safety, reliability, and business continuity, and how to realize subsequent scale-up and industrialization development; the second is how to improve development efficiency, quickly realize business system reconstruction, and make huge IT investment obtain The corresponding benefits; the third is whether the digital construction has finally produced business value, especially in the digital native stage, how to generate more data value.
Facing the opportunities and challenges of the times, how should the builders of China's digital infrastructure respond? China Electronics, as the core strategic technology force of the national cybersecurity and informatization cause, has given its own answer - the financial-grade digital base "Yuanqi".
02 What is Yuanqi
Built for financial and key industries
Digital New Infrastructure
The financial-level digital base "Yuanqi" is a new digital infrastructure built by China Electronics for financial and key industries relying on the full-stack independent security computing industry chain and adopting a new-generation technology architecture.
"Yuanqi" is oriented to key industry scenarios such as finance, and in accordance with the system engineering methodology, it conducts verification, adaptation, customization and tuning of full-stack technology products, realizes the integrated design of software and hardware and vertical penetration, and creates a technology that can reliably replace traditional architectures The base meets the requirements of industry applications for high security, high reliability, high performance, ultimate experience, high-speed construction and green sustainability, and helps the deep digital transformation of the economy and society.
Yuanqi is mainly composed of three major platforms
- Yuanqi. Basic operation support platform: Through a series of technical platforms and components, vertically adapt and optimize chips, storage, network, complete machine, operating system, database, cloud and middleware to the best performance, and build a next-generation oriented The cloud-native data center solution provides a complete, credible, and configurable basic operating support environment for applications, and meets key features such as large capacity, high concurrency, high availability, and high security in key industries such as finance.
- Yuanqi. Digital construction platform: through business modeling, system design, all-field low-code development, system testing, continuous integration release, engineering management, R&D assets, R&D security management, R&D process management and other business development and operation integration tools and The standard specification system supports agile innovation and continuous iteration of digital applications, solidifies specifications, reduces difficulty, guarantees quality, and accumulates architectural assets, allowing developers to focus on business implementation and improve software production efficiency in a fully digital way.
- Yuanqi. Data asset platform: aiming at data asset accumulation and data value creation, using big data technology, AI technology and data security technology to build a data intelligence base integrating data management and control platform, data middle platform and AI platform, combining Industry precipitation and data governance, realize data-driven business operation and lean management, and complete the transformation from business data, data capitalization to asset value.
Yuanqi's application scenarios
- Scenario 1: The host moves down. Through Yuanqi, the original business system can be migrated from mainframes, medium-sized computers and minicomputers to the cloud-native micro-service cluster technology architecture, relying on the cluster computing capabilities of the basic operation support platform to achieve horizontal expansion, ensuring account consistency, system stability and High reliability, fast, secure, and low-cost migration of core business systems of financial institutions and other various business systems, and will also greatly save operation and maintenance costs.
- Scenario 2: Enterprise-level technology platform. Yuanqi can meet the needs of digital transformation and business development, build a customer-centric, service-oriented, technologically advanced, safe and reliable technical architecture system, and further incorporate or restructure other application systems through the technical platform to meet the needs of rapid business innovation Demand, and comprehensively improve the product competitiveness, data governance capability, marketing service capability, product competitiveness, risk management and control capability, operation management capability and architectural support capability of industry users.
- Scenario 3: Cloud-native core business system. The new-generation core business system is the most basic and important IT system to support the operation of financial institutions, and it is the most important business scenario for verifying Yuanqi's financial-grade digital base. Utilizing the elastic expansion capability of the container technology in Yuanqi's financial-grade digital base, the horizontal elastic expansion requirements of the core application's second-level expansion during the peak period can be realized, and the accounting processing ability, consistency, security and stability of the core system of the financial institution can be undertaken at an optimized cost. Assure.
- Scenario 4 : Digital Transformation. Yuanqi can help industry customers obtain powerful, diversified and flexible computing capabilities to support subdivided business scenarios, support the agile, intelligent construction and operation and maintenance of ultra-large-scale complex applications, provide complete security capabilities in the digital space, and pass Low power consumption technology, customized computing architecture, reusable application mode and resource sharing form a green and efficient digital transformation mode. Based on these core capabilities, Yuanqi has become an important technical support platform for the digital transformation of customers in industries such as financial institutions.
The main value of Yuanqi
- Comprehensive pre-adaptation: Yuanqi uses the method of system engineering to carry out basic research, and solves in-depth adaptation through the vertical penetration of the whole stack from domestic chips, servers, storage, networks, operating systems, databases, clouds, and middleware to applications. It solves the configuration problem and optimizes the performance to provide diversified choices for the industry.
- Financial-level performance: Based on the product strategy of "system-system-machine-single product", Yuanqi proposes a technical route of "security classification, architecture deconstruction, openness and compatibility", opens up CPU, operating system, cloud, etc., and proceeds layer by layer System optimization, through vertical puncture, system optimization, and depth adaptation to the overall capabilities of the tree, make up for the shortcomings of individual products, and meet financial-level performance requirements such as cloud native, high concurrency, massive data, multiple locations and multiple activities, and high security. Customers provide the ultimate experience.
- Systematic security: Systematic security: Based on the design concept of self-contained computing system security first and security built-in, Yuanqi integrates "Trusted Computing 3.0" technology into CPU, operating system and storage controller to form a trinity active immune protection Architecture, reconstruction of the financial network defense system.
- Open and unbound: Based on the design concept of open and unbound, Yuanqi takes the independent computing system as the core support of the digital base, and realizes openness and compatibility to the greatest extent through layer-by-layer decoupling, extensive adaptation, and collaborative optimization.
03 Inspire the Future
Future Development of Financial Digital Infrastructure
On April 18, the "Financial Digital New Infrastructure Innovation and Opening Consortium" was established in Shanghai. The consortium was jointly initiated by Bank of Shanghai, Fudan University Financial Technology Research Institute, and China Electronics Financial Trust. The first batch of member units gathered the backbone of the industry chain and supply side: Guotai Junan Securities, CPIC Technology, PICC Technology, Feiteng Information, Kirin Software, Star ring technology. In the future, member units will join hands to contribute to the construction of new financial digital technology facilities; at the same time, more financial institutions, technology manufacturers, scientific research institutions and industry associations are called on to join the innovation consortium to jointly build digital new technology facilities. Infrastructure innovation ecology. In the future, Yuanqi will continue to make efforts in four aspects: first, the digital space supports integration and interaction; second, it supports more connection-based innovations in ubiquitous scenarios; third, it emphasizes more on digital driving and supporting data The original value; the fourth is agile response, intelligent autonomy.
It is often said that digital technology is triggering a new round of industrial revolution. Looking at the first and second industrial revolutions, it is fundamentally that the production tools marked by steam engines and electric power "permeate" into the industrial production links, making productivity Realize subversive and leapfrog development. In the same way, "full penetration" is also the only way for new digital infrastructure.
At present, through various major benchmarking projects, "Yuanqi" is gradually iterating from physical machine-based to cloud-based, container-based and other technologies, from small banks, provincial banks to large financial institutions, from single-core system application scenarios to integrated industry Comprehensive scenarios such as finance and mobile finance, gradually expanding from the financial industry to key industries such as energy manufacturing...
Yuanqi's industrial story has just begun. There are you and me in this story, let us work together to build a new digital cornerstone!